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Loading contentThe energy that fills empty space even in the absence of matter or radiation, arising from quantum fields in their lowest state. Vacuum energy is a leading candidate for the dark energy driving cosmic acceleration and is closely tied to the cosmological constant in Einstein's equations.
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